Proof of concept: FlyCasting

We have created apps for smart watches and smart phones which let
you hear your movements as you cast, and a desktop app for analysis
of casting sessions at a later time. The watch and phone apps are
already available as
prototypes so that people can work on building the correct muscle
memories for the different movements that go together to make a good
cast.

SkillShaper apps for other activities are in planning
stages.
Get in
touch with us if you'd like to know more.

SkillShaper apps for FlyCasting

Get the
sounds of good casts in your ear:
Listen to the movement audios of a casting session, or download
cast-recording from expert casters. Study the charts and play them back - to hear what a
good cast really sounds like. The main fore and aft strokes will
sound like a smoothly rising tone, as they steadily accelerate
during the stroke. Then there will be a sharp spike in the sound at
the point they apply reverse force to crisply stop the stroke. The
more you hear it, the more those patterns burn into your mind - and
the easier it will be to cast the same way.

SkillShaper Watch app

Make real
casts with a smart watch: Strap one to your flyrod
on top of or just in front of the grip. Fold the watch band back
under your thumb. Let some line out and start to cast.

The accelerometer in the watch reads the movements and
produces the sound of those movements from its speaker. If your
watch has no speaker, it can stream the accelerometer readings to a
speaker.

SkillShaper
Phone app

Practice
with a phone alone: You can use the
SkillShaper SmartPhone app for learning and practicing good casting
skills. Hold it like you would hold a fly rod. Pantomime a cast.
Listen to your strokes.

Focus in on one critical movement at a time by selecting
an option on the setting page: the Stroke move, the Stops at
the end of your strokes, or keeping your swings in a Straight Line.

SkillShaper Analysis App

Study
your casts at your desktop: You will be able
to use the
desktop app for storing, replaying and studying the details of your
earlier casts. And studying the casts ot experts.
It can create moment-by-moment charts of the force patterns in each
cast and learn a great deal about what makes for great casting, and
what you can do to improve your own.

A case in point: I discovered that I habitually injected a sudden
wrist-snap at the start of my strokes. The snap, sounding like a hiccup in the
audio, was giving me tailing loops and greatly reducing the efficiency of my casts. I
immediatly began practicing casts with a gentler start, and a smoother rise in
acceleration-sound. I am finally overcoming this bad habit. I'm
casting further, and with less effort. Most of the time, anyway.
(Bad muscle memory is devilishly hard to overcome).

Lefty Kreh

Ed Jaworowski (now an advisor to SkillShaper)

Pricing

The following prices are projections and are subject to change.
Check back to this page for updates on availability and pricing.

Watch app $120 at the Android
Store and the
Apple
Play Store. May, 2020

Phone app $120 at the Android
Store and the
Apple
Play Store. May, 2020

Desktop app $120 expected
by October, 2020

BETA versions of the Watch and Phone apps will available as
perks, in return for donations to our crowdfunding campaign on
Indiegogo, starting in May, 2020.